Samuel Johnson Quotes on Wisdom
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.
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He that would pass the latter part of life with honour and decency, must, when he is young, consider that he shall one day be old; and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young.
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But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.
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He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
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No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
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As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.
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The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.